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“Eyewitnesses play an important role in criminal cases when they can identify culprits. Estimates suggest that tens of thousands of eyewitnesses make identifications in criminal investigations each year. Research on factors that affect the accuracy of eyewitness identification procedures has given us an increasingly clear picture of how identifications are made, and more importantly, an …
Crime drop since 1994 has been bigger in states that cut imprisonment rates. “Two decades after Congress passed the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 — with lawmakers focused on locking up more offenders for longer periods — the nation’s imprisonment rate has climbed 24 percent and crime has declined 40 percent. …
Admati, Anat R., The Compelling Case for Stronger and More Effective Leverage Regulation in Banking (September 30, 2014). Journal of Legal Studies, Forthcoming. Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2505199 “Excessive leverage (indebtedness) in banking endangers the public and distorts the economy. Yet current and proposed regulations only tweak previous regulations that failed to provide financial stability. …
Evgeniou, Theodoros and Fang, Lily H. and Hogarth, Robin M. and Karelaia, Natalia, Competitive Dynamics in Forecasting: The Interaction of Skill and Uncertainty (2013). Journal of Behavioral Decision Making 26 (4), 375-384, 2013. Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2505219 “The outcomes of many activities depend upon both skill and luck. We analyze stock analysts’ forecasts of …
Bradley, John M., Empowering Employees to Prevent Fraud in Nonprofit Organizations (September 18, 2014). Cardozo Public Law, Policy and Ethics Journal, Vol. 13, 2015, Forthcoming; U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 14-32. Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2505194 “This Article examines the significant problem of fraud within nonprofit organizations and demonstrates that …
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Department of the Treasury – Enforcement Actions and Professional Liability Claims Against Institution-Affiliated Parties and Individuals Associated with Failed Institutions. Report Numbers, EVAL 14-002, 2014-SR-B-011, OIG-CA-14-012. July 2014 “As discussed in our report, the Regulators have established formal processes for investigating and imposing EAs on IAPs …
Joshua Brustein – Bloomberg: “Twitter is giving $10 million to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology over the next five years to study patterns of public discourse on the Internet, and potentially to build technology that will make online civic action more effective. The research will happen as part of the MIT Media Lab under a vaguely ominous …
“The Department of Homeland Security (DHS or Department) Privacy Office is the first statutorily created privacy office in any federal agency, as set forth in Section 222 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002, as amended. The mission of the Privacy Office is to protect all individuals by embedding and enforcing privacy protections and transparency in …
Beth Cobert, Deputy Director for Management at the Office of Management and Budget “In a rapidly changing technological environment, we must have robust procedures, policies, and systems in place to protect our nation’s most sensitive information. Growing cybersecurity threats make it ever more important for the Federal government to maintain comprehensive information security controls to assess …
Emily Anthes, The New Yorker: “In 1967, William F. Caveness, a neurologist and veteran of the Korean War, began building a registry of living soldiers who had suffered head trauma in Vietnam. Studies of veterans of the Second World War had suggested that penetrating head injuries could cause seizures, and Caveness, who had documented post-traumatic epilepsy …
World Wildlife Fund: “The Living Planet Report documents the state of the planet—including biodiversity, ecosystems, and demand on natural resources—and what this means for humans and wildlife. Published by WWF every two years, the report brings together a variety of research to provide a comprehensive view of the health of the earth. Population sizes of vertebrate species—mammals, birds, …
Alexa O’Brien – Based on a work at alexaobrien.com – “I had an opportunity to attend a presentation by a retired technical director at the NSA, William Binney, which provided context for some of the published documents released by former NSA contractor, Edward Snowden. Because of the public value of Binney’s expertise on the subject, I decided to publish his presentation …
